#78: Jake Schwartz, Co-Founder and former CEO of General Assembly—Navigating startup chaos, what a startup and the Beatles have in common, and the wisdom of looking back on the journey

Building a startup on Bitcoin means you're not riding one rollercoaster, you're riding two at once. The volatility of launching a company is hard enough. Layer on top of that a protocol still finding ...

29 Juni 50min

What happens when you've already built a company used by more than 100 million people, and suddenly the world changes again? In this episode, Alisa Cohn sits down with Andrey Khusid, Founder and CEO o...

15 Juni 46min

What if the biggest threat to your company is not competition, but the systems everyone told you to trust? In this episode, Alisa Cohn sits down with Eric Ries, creator of the Lean Startup methodology...

1 Juni 48min

What if you have been hiring wrong this entire time? In this episode, Josh Reeves, Co-Founder and CEO of Gusto, a $10B people platform serving over 300,000 businesses, joins Alisa Cohn for one of the ...

18 Maj 1h 6min

What happens after you “make it”… and realize money was never the point? In this episode, Jyoti Bansal, Founder & CEO of Harness and founder of AppDynamics (sold for $3.7B), sits down with Alisa Cohn ...

4 Maj 1h 2min

What if the thing you’ve been told to build… isn’t the thing that actually creates results? In this encore episode, Gina Bianchini joins Alisa Cohn to break down why community, not content, not audien...

20 Apr 1h 1min

What does it actually take to lead when the stakes are real, the decisions are heavy, and people are counting on you? In this episode of From Start-Up to Grown-Up, Alisa Cohn sits down with Tanay Koth...

6 Apr 1h 5min

What does it actually mean to care about someone at work? In this encore episode, Alisa Cohn sits down with Kim Scott, former Apple and Google executive and bestselling author of Radical Candor and Ra...

23 Mars 1h 18min